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Subject:Re: urban camping in sf/thieves
From:Mark Dorm
Date:Tue, 29 Aug 2000 01:12:19 PDT

An alpine alarm would work in san francisco wouldn't it? Or would it? Maybe
they would break into the van just to steal the alarm.

>From: Benjamin Tan <BenTbtstr8@aol.com>

>The best hiding place for thieves (at least in San Francisco) seems to be
>behind curtains and sunshades/screens.
>
>I have tinted windows in my VW Fox Wagon and had a (foil-type) sunshade. It
>was the perfect place for the thieves to go through my belongings without
>being seen. This happened while I was in a house in St. Francis Woods
>(which
>is a very expensive part of San Francisco) for a mere 35 minutes. Mind you,
>this was on Junipero Serra which has 200,000 vehicles passing daily.
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